Few days after RSS swayamsevak Rudresh was hacked to death in broad daylight in a busy street in Bengaluru, the BJP demanded NIA probe into the gruesome murder. The State BJP leaders led by former CM and State part chief BS Yeddyurappa on Friday petitioned Governor Vajubhai Vala.
The delegation led by State party chief BS Yeddyurappa and leader of Opposition Jagadish Shettar met Vala under and alleged that the Congress Government “is bent upon allowing the killers to have a field day” and is not keen to trace the assailants involved in any of these cases. The party has blamed “unholy nexus” of “Jihadists” and Marxists for the killing.
The BJP also blamed Congress of indulging in “vote-bank politics”, they appealed to the Governor to prevail upon the State Government to hand over the cases to NIA to “unearth the motive and expose” the perpetrators of the crime.
Alleging that BJP has every reason to suspect that there is a "pattern, a design and a diabolical motive" behind these killings of RSS/BJP workers, the party said it also suspects the "unholy nexus of the Jihadists and Marxists", a deadly combination, behind these killings.
"Going by the pattern, design and modus operandi, it is almost sure that the workers of the Popular Front of India(PFI) are involved. These elements are being provided with intellectual and moral support by Marxists," it said.
"In so far as the diabolical motive is concerned, the PFI, in league with the Marxists, wants a communal flare up so that the BJP and Sangh Pariwar outfits can be blamed. It suits the vote-bank politics of the Congress," it added
The BJP also stepped up its attack on the ruling Congress government in Karnataka led by chief minister Siddaramaiah for failing law and order situation in the state. The memorandum said that not one case has reached its logical end so far and notes the disturbing trend is that the Congress government has been "predetermining the course of investigation" by "deliberately" making "loaded" remarks almost immediately after the crime with a "sinister design" to "prejudice" the investigating officers.
"Our charge is that the government has directed the police to take this line in all such cases involving BJP and Sangh Pariwar Activists," it added.
RSS mandal Pradhan , 35 year old Rudresh, was hacked to death by two motorcycle-borne men who struck him with machete on Kamaraja Road in Central Bengaluru last Sunday when he was returning home on a bike after attending a RSS event.
Stating that Rudresh was the latest in the series of killings of activists belonging to "Nationalist School of Thought" in the last two years, the memorandum cited a list of incidents about Hindutva activists "who have fallen victim to PFI goons".
"The attacks are executed systematically. In all the mentioned attacks, the weapons used are more or less the same (long swords and tamancha) and the modus operandi adopted by the attackers is almost the same," it said.
The memorandum also said the attacks have been taking place in quick intervals in various parts of Karnataka, especially in coastal Dakshina Kannada district, and the attackers are perpetrating the crime with "impunity and escaping with felicity."